How times have changed…or have they?

The end of last week was  spent transferring (Telecine) a large archive of 16mm film to both file and DVD. A quick calculation revealed there was around 2 MILES of film in total. Fortunately for the client I didn’t stretch it out from here to Tesco to check that! The films belong to the London Children’s Flower Society, a registered Charity set up in 1945 and most were from the sixties.

The society encourage children to take an interest in flowers and plants and several showed children of both sexes and all ages planting and caring for flower beds and even what looked like school allotments. What made me smile the most was a film showing Daffodil bulbs being handed out to school children in October, being planted and cared for at home and then in March a whole group of children, beaming from ear to ear proudly carrying their flowering potted Daffodils into school. Their Patron at the time was the Queen Mother and there were many visits that she made to schools around London to meet staff and pupils. You could almost smell the paint – everything from the white lines outside the school entrance to the fences and railings sparkled…along with HRH.

I commented to my wife how times had changed, coming in a week when the pupils of  Sandringham School in St Albans had been speaking with astronaut Tim Peake on the International Space Station. I still find it amazing that the technology works 200 mile up into space to an object rotating the earth, according to NASA, at 17500 miles an hour, but when I want to phone a client on his mobile 5 miles away…

I am most certainly not a gardener but have the utmost admiration for those with green fingers and patience to grow and care plants and gardens. Hopefully come springtime we will be returning to Holland’s most beautiful Keukenhof.

However The London Children’s Flower Society continues it’s good work to this day and still holds competitions and encourages an interest in gardening to the latest generation. http://www.londonchildrensflowersociety.org/ How wonderful that they can get the message out there, as no matter how fantastic technology is, nothing comes close to the complexity of many flowers and plants.

My work is certainly diverse and ten days into 2016 and with another huge Telecine archive waiting to be started, already this year, two dozen video tapes have been transferred to DVD, a TV commercial for Spirit Productions fabulous show, New Jersey Nights, is into it’s second week of the ad campaign on ITV in the West Country, a presentation about Directors and Officers Insurance,  that I did the post production for, Brents Insurance/Capricorn Media is now live on their website and in the next week a promo for a Christmas show filmed before Christmas will be made to sell the show to promoters for 2016  and a meeting with a client to plan a promotional video for their website is planned.

A comprehensive range of video production services for sure. If its to do with video give me a call.

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